These are our high-level aspirations – to be developed as we engage with wider stakeholders.

1. Grow the BIG community – significantly increase membership, contributors, and collaborators (individuals and professional groups).
2. Engage sponsors and partners – increase the number of commercial partners and active professional partners.
3. Demonstrate the value – showcase BIG through practical tools (e.g., readiness assessments), case studies, and speaker insights.
4. Facilitate interaction and content creation – to create content with participants at the event and enable follow on material creation and sharing.
5. Inspire adoption – to develop the perception of value attendees and people reading about the conference to engage their organisations to make changes inspired by BIG.
6. Drive Funding – generate the funds needed to enable the operation of CIC, including professional support for developing the Body of Knowledge

Some numerical aspirations to address:

• Secure support from Commercial and Professional Partners
• Secure participation from Target Conference Attendees
• Provide a platform to connect people, promote thought leadership, and foster collaboration.
• Deliver Value to Attendees though engaging Conference Themes
• Collect and curate knowledge that adds to the value that the CIC offers to all stakeholders.

(Please note – these are the audiences defined for the BIG BoK)

• Senior executives and management teams
• Heads of strategy
• Transformation directors
• Sponsors, programme managers, and stakeholders involved in initiating a BIG initiative.
• Operations heads who are stakeholders in Business-as-Usual and Product Management.
• Existing support offices, such as strategy execution offices and project/program management offices
• Governance, risk, and compliance teams
• Enterprise, business, and solution architects
• Those responsible or impacted by uncertainty whether impacting on organisation or a more granular level

Pre conference we will Blog and present podcasts with contributors, professional and commercial partners for mutual promotion, and to introduce conference topics.

• We plan to include:
  • Commercial Partner Session – to explain our view of how partners can benefit
  • Veronicas BIG BoK Group – one of our Professional Exam holders is planning to hold a book club to go through the BoK
  • Prep for Associate Exam Exam – We will put on a guide to the Associate Exam, and help people prepare to take teh exam using BIG Contents
  • Membership and Merch – We will explain the Membership levels, and how you can support our not for profit motive with small purchases.

We also plan to run partner blogs / presentations to generate audience for partner websites, and generate Conference Attendees

This list is developing. If you have something to add, please Contact us

930 Start

• Welcome and why are we here – Introduced by David Dunning – Original Founder of the BIG CIC
• BIG Introduction – why, what, how – 3 speakers from the BIG CIC
• FrankenOrg – an example BIG implementation – built from many real examples. Rather than just present a couple of cases – we like the idea of stitching together aspects of several real scenarios to make an end to end picture of an example BIG scenario. We have several contributors to this model – perhaps you have a contribution to the scenario, and can be part of the Panel Review? – 4 speakers from the BIG CIC
• BIG Readiness Assessment. A key aspect to helping an organisation leverage the key Concepts, Principles and Components of BIG is helping key potential stakeholders understand their current situation  and understand the opportunity with Business Integrated Governance . This session will work through the BIG Principles and we’ll help attendees to gather some non-private team data from the audience (which we will share as permission allows, and individuals can take their own content away)). There will be a panel review of the status data, and discussion of implications. This will be shared to enable attendees to see how the connection of current state to possible solution components can be made. – 2 speakers and a facilitator from the BIG CIC

1230 Lunch break, 1.30 re-start (there will be lunchtime entertainment)

• Speaker Sessions – to co present with a crystal clear alignment message of their core disciplines to BIG – covering Strategy, Governance and Portfolio Management
  • Strategy community – represented by David Booth and David Worsley
  • Governance community – represented by Tim Leech
  • Portfolio Management – represented by Stephen Jenner
• Feedback, Panel Discussions and Calls to Action

5pm Close

(there will be 5 minute breaks between sessions)

The main sessions will be separated by shorter sessions we call “Fill ins”.

This will include signposts for BIG CIC and Partner highlights including:

BIG Snippets:

• History – did you know where this came from
• BIG Roles available – the CIC needs volunteers to function – can you help us organise?
• BIG Ambassadors – there are lots of professional bodies that need to plug into integrated governance – can you front a relationship for us?
• Merchandise –  way to donate and get cool stuff

Partner Highlights:

• Who are they and what can they do?
• Links to Blogs and Podcasts pre conference

The BIG Conference is available to Full Members, and those who have temporary Conference Membership.

• FULL Membership – Become a BIG Full Member and get access to multiple benefits over open access, plus Conference Access – £120
• Conference Full Membership – Register for Conference Access. and get access to Full BIG Membership and multiple further benefits. – £120
• Conference Only Membership – Access to Conference content for 1 month – £20 (Content available until 6th Jan 2026)

To see Membership options, please visit the Membership page – when the benefits of all membership profiles is provided.

Register as one of these member types and get an invite when ticketing is released.

Please remember that the BIG CIC is not for profit, with no profit taking shareholders. Your membership essentially provides a donation to help the community interest company run.

Existing regular Members have access to the Body ok Knowledge and can upgrade their Membership to be Full Members for entitlement to Conference access. Simply:

1. Log in as a Member
2. Go to the Register as a Full Member
3. If the system tells you your membership already exists – this is because you are not logged in as a member, and the system is trying to create a new membership for your existing ID (which you can’t do)

Invitations to the event will be shared with all qualifying members in due course.

The event has secured the following speakers

• David Booth and David Worsley from the International Association of Strategy Professionals. David B is author of Strategy Journeys, David W is Rail Strategy Manager at Transport for the North.
• Governance community – represented by Tim Leech who has received awards for outstanding contributions to the risk and assurance field – one the top 10 internal audit and risk thought leaders of the decade globally.
• Portfolio Management – represented by Stephen Jenner whose publications on Project Portfolio Management and Benefit Management have set the standards in the P3 domain. Steve Jenner is a pracitioner, trainer and writer on the subjects of project portfolio and benefits management. He is the author of, and chief examiner for, APMG’s Managing Benefits™ (3rd edition, 2024) and Managing Portfolios™ (2024). He was also co-author of the OGC/Axelos, Management of Portfolios.  Steve is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA), with an MBA, and holds a Masters of Studies degree from Cambridge University.

The Following People are collaborating to define and develop the event

• Alex Shapley
• Bolaji Olaniru
• Chris Bragg
• David Dunning
• Marjana Skubic
• Melissa Barras
• Natalia Jobson
• Odette Batstone
• Simon Harris
• Veronica Edward-Smith

The BIG CIC wants to provide Conference Attendees with information, insights and inspiration. We would also like to provide capability and support to attendees to take their first steps.

There are however, limits on what can be done by volunteers for a conference.

The BIG CIC would therefore also like to offer practical topics for conference attendees – How do I get this going!

• Building Workshops – how would this work in my organisation
• Pains / Expectations
• Stakeholders….
• Vision
• Scope – business units / components
• Business Case
• Solution Workshops
• Training Workshops
• Exams

This will either be provided as a follow on day, a series of sessions one a week, or as a follow on event in the Spring.

More information is to follow. Please email Information@big-cic.org with suggestions fro what you might want to see.

The purpose of Business Integrated Governance is to align strategic objectives, governance structures, and business operations to ensure cohesive decision-making and execution across all levels of the organisation Please see Chapter 1 of the BoK for more information.

The BIG-CIC promotes a unified framework that connects strategic intent with governance practices and business execution, More on what is BIG here

The BIG CIC Purpose is:

• Knowledge Growth & Sharing – Further develop and share knowledge on Business Integrated Governance (BIG) with members, professional bodies, partners and the public.
  • Community Engagement – Encourage volunteer participation in knowledge advancement and sharing.
  • Collect and publish knowledge – about the value, practice and implementation of BIG based on real life incidents and practices of BIG and observed impacts of poorly integrated governance
  • Domain Integration – Work with relevant professional bodies to align and integrate knowledge within and adjacent to BIG.
  • Partner development – Support organisations to define and develop consulting, services, training and solutions leveraging BIG.
• Education & Accreditation – provide the Body of Knowledge, oversee exams, and issue BIG credentials.

The BIG CIC has been supported by many contributors, and some of their motivations and viewpoints are provided in the BoK Foreword.